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HOUSTON VOICE www.houstonvoice.com
I dish
APRIL 8, 2005 B
There's a Fine Line Between Telling the Truth and Talking Trash
'Idol' gossip
Anwar Robinson gets
gayed, Oscar winners
get defensive and
Michael Musto
gets cryptic on us
Those damn bloggers are just bound
and determined to have a gay contestant
on this year's "American Idol." the super
popular glorified karaoke contest on Fox.
The latest target of Internet rumors is
ANWAR ROBINSON. The 25-year-old
New Jersey singer, who auditioned in
D.C, has been pseudo outed on gay
entertainment information Web site
www.afterelton.com, the brother to
lesbian site www.afterellen.com.
The site has posted a personals profile
found in the men-seeking-men section of
www.BlackPlanet.com. Of course, it
could be a fake.
"BlackPlanet.com indicates that
Robinson's last login was Jan. 1,2005, before
the contestants for the fourth season of
['Idol'] were made public," afterelton.com
reads. "No one knew at the time that
[Robinson] would become one of the finalists
... which makes it unlikely to be a fake
profile... It also raises questions around why
Robinson did not remove his profile once he
was selected to be on the show."
John Chiklis, the writer of the story,
concludes that Fox doesn't want the
contestants to be out while on the show
and claims to have "sources" who say that
Robinson has been out since high school.
First season finalist JIM VERRAROS
is the only openly gay contestant in the
show's history, and he came out after the
series ended.
For those of you
who forgot about
Verraros, his second
album of pop tunes,
"Rollercoaster" is set
to hit stores April 26.
He also stars in
"Eating Out," a gay
comedy that screened
in D.C. last June and
is being released in
select cities April 8.
While the bloggers obsess over rumors
about the next gay idol, it looks like
Verraros has been busy getting to work.
Jim Verraros
Get shorty
It looks like the winner of this year's
Oscar for best short subject documentary
may also have a short fuse.
Last week, Steve Kalafer, the producer
of nominated short "Sister Rose's
Passion," sent a letter to the Academy of
Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences claiming
that life partners ROBERT HUDSON
and BOBBY HOUSTON unfairly used
reenactments in their award-winning
movie "Mighty Times: The Children's
March," the Associated Press reports.
In his letter, Kalafer
says the film fails to
disclose which scenes
are reenactments of
events from the black
civil rights movement,
Hudson & Houston's
subject. Dale Olson, a
publicist for "Passion"
told AP that "Mighty
Times" is "an
intentional deception
to the Academy"
Hudson had a bitchy retort for the Los
Angeles Times, saying. "The pain you feel
inside after losing can make anyone spin
out of control."
Ouch.
Musto be true
Village Voice gossip columnist (and
Dish's arch nemesis) MICHAEL MUSTO
purged himself of a whole lot of gay
gossip in his column on March 29.
Unluckily for his humble readers, he took
all of the names out, so we have to guess
for ourselves.
"Which swiveling pop star has been
known to pick up guys in the steam room at
a Miami hotel gym — a lot?" Musto queer-ies.
"What handsome ex-series star (a
Golden Globe winner) once flirted with a
guy across the aisle on a plane and even
tried to follow him into the bathroom, to
the consternation of the actor's young
male 'assistant'?"
"What marriage between a gay and a
gal was partly done for the gay to get
press and the gal to get a green card?"
"What two young hunks (one a faded
star of an Oscar-winning flick and the
other a broken-up boyfriend) may well
have commingled several years ago when
they were both more famous?"
These are a couple Dish figured out,
let's see if you're as good.
. Send comments, suggestions to
•* Dish(pouslonvoice.com